Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell and Symantec, reportedly close to breaking apart its storage and security businesses, reached a point where acquiring new vendors couldn't sustain growth, according to FireEye CEO Dave DeWalt.

Retail data breaches get the biggest headlines, but midmarket businesses are increasingly the target of cyberattackers and the damage could be catastrophic, according to FireEye and Mandiant executives.

Next-generation firewalls that combine intrusion-prevention capabilities with other traditional firewall components and new breach detection platforms are not enough to kill the market for standalone intrusion prevention systems, say experts.

Doug Erickson, former VP of worldwide partner programs at Juniper Networks, has left the company to head up channels at Pulse Secure, a new mobile security company based on Juniper's recently spun-off Junos Pulse business.

Attackers gained the email addresses and phone numbers of 7 million businesses and 76 million households, but the good news is that the most sensitive data was not exposed, according to security experts.

Small and midsize businesses can offload the management and security of complex systems that are often exploited by attackers to gain access to critical corporate data, according to a security industry veteran. Here are 10 ways cloud adoption can bolster security.

Next-generation firewalls and other security appliances often generate an overwhelming number of alerts, according to Proficio, an Irvine, Calif.-based managed security service provider, which has added a channel program for resellers and networking consultants for its monitoring services.

The independent testing firm stands by its latest results and says a weakness found in Palo Alto Networks' Next Generation Firewalls enables attackers to easily avoid detection using common evasion techniques.

Dell SecureWorks and other managed security service providers, in an update this week, said ongoing attacks consist mainly of probes for systems vulnerable to the Shellshock Bash command-line interpreter vulnerability. FireEye has uncovered attempts against NAS systems.

While a large group of EMC's investors continue to hope that EMC will sell parts of itself to create more clear valuation for them, EMC is likely heading in the opposite direction by considering more acquisitions, according to a top analyst.